Hope did not know Grace; but she knew the voice, the manner, the magnetism to which the gay girl was exposed, "If Mr.Godefroi Plumer is really as rich as I hear," said Lawrence, "I think we shall have a Mrs.Abel Newt in the autumn.

Poor Mrs.Abel Newt!" He shook his head with that look, mingled of feeling and irony, which was very perplexing.

The tone in which he spoke was really so full of tenderness for the girl, that Hope, who heard every word and felt every tone, was sure that Lawrence Newt pitied the prospective bride sincerely.
"I beg pardon, Mr.Newt, and Miss Wayne," said Arthur Merlin; "but how can a man have a high respect for women when he sees his sister do what Fanny Newt has done ?" "Why should a man complain that his sister does precisely what he is trying to do himself ?" asked Lawrence..